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US 2017/0245902 A1Published application
Bone fixation implant and means of fixation
AssigneeCrossroads Extremity Systems, LLC
InventorsMichael HOLLIS, Vernon HARTDEGEN
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Abstract
An implant for osteosynthesis which can be used to repair fractures and or fuse joints. The implant comprises one or more through holes for the passage of one or more sutures therethrough and or one or more sutures may be an integral part of the implant. The one or more sutures may be used to pull bone segments together and create compression therebetween and or to affix soft tissue to a bone segment.
Claims19
An implant for osteosynthesis
- the implant having a means for fixating or fusing two or more bone segments to one another, and or means for fixating a soft tissue segment to a bone segment, wherein the bone segments comprise segments of a fracture and or a joint.
The implant of claim 21 comprising one or more than one through hole for receiving one or more than one suture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.